The Social Sciences

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1. Rank the SEVEN SOCIAL SCIENCES (anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology) according to what you believe is their importance and influence on the people in a modern society.  1 is most important, 7 is least important.

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(18 points)

Write a persuasive essay that defends your ranking of the seven social sciences. Use specific facts and details from your personal experiences and reading to support your point of view. Review the Grading Assignment Rubric and the Persuasive Essay sheet before writing your essay.

 

Getting Started

As you write your persuasive essay, you are trying to capture the reader”s interest and ask for help in solving a problem. The goal is to get the reader to accept your point of view using at least six examples of facts, details, real personal experiences, or fictitious illustrations in the assignment.

 

You will need to focus your persuasive essay on three areas. First, you must identify the problem or point of view for your reader. You may need to use facts, details, and real life examples or create fictitious illustrations that show the problem. Next, you need to offer a solution or a summary of your point of view.

 

In true persuasive writing, you don”t just stir up the audience; you offer a way for them to become involved in solving the problem or to convince them of your position. Finally, you call for action. You want your reader to believe as you do and to offer support, either emotionally or physically.

 

Make sure you have topic sentences with transitions to help guide the reader along to the next paragraph!

 

Your 5 Paragraph Essay should be organized like this:

 

I.  Introduction: list the 7 different Social Sciences and state which one you believe is most important and which is the least important, based on YOUR OWN PERSONAL experiences, opinions and beliefs.  Make sure you have a THESIS STATEMENT that lays out the basic argument of your essay.

 

Sample Thesis Statement: In my own experience, I have found that HISTORY is the most important of the Social Sciences, because it provides us with a framework to combine together things like anthropology, which is slightly less important and sociology, which is even less important, only because people and societies change so much and vary from one culture to the next.

 

II. Least Important Social Science

A. Example, Supporting fact, incident or statistic

B. Example, Supporting fact, incident or statistic

III. More Important Social Sciences

A. Example, Supporting fact, incident or statistic

B. Example, Supporting fact, incident or statistic

IV. Most Important Social Science

A. Example, Supporting fact, incident or statistic

B. Example, Supporting fact, incident or statistic

V. Conclusion: based on what you”ve just argued about which Social Sciences are more important than others, what should be done about this?  What recommendations do you make for students, teachers, politicians and society as a whole?